Summer has started!

My summer has officially started. The first Big Brother aired last night and now the live feeds are up and running.

I love watching the hampsters! I do feel a little squicky, although very infrequently. They just seem to cast the most idiotic people. Either they are too self-aware or not self-aware at all and I just sit and watch. And watch, and watch and mock. I also lurk at Hampster Time and read all the wonderful live feed recaps. Here is where I have made all my imaginary internet friends, they're friends for me, but they don't know I exist.

At the first food competition, I think it was Lisa, was given the choice - $10,000 dollars in exchange for everyone going on PB&J for a week. This is a very easy choice - do not choose the money. This just makes everyone hate you! They are going to vote you out very soon for this, maybe not the first eviction, but soon! Julie said if the first hampster turned down the offer, the next hampster would be given the same choice. See, if you turn down the money and someone else takes it, you will look even better and they will have more hate than you do now. Have these idiots ever watched the show? It actually makes for more interesting live feeds when everyone is cranky from hunger. There will be more interpersonal confrontations. Good stuff.

The even better thing that happened last night - Amazing Race is back! This is my favorite reality show of all time. I have watched this show from the very first episode. The recaps Miss Alli writes on Television Without Pity make the show even better. This year has some interesting couples. I won't get too attached to anyone the first couple of weeks. I have to wait until some get weeded out before I can get a handle on the personalities. I am starting to reserve some early hate for Charla and Marla. From the initial interviews, I picked the twins as my early choice to win, but then I watched them race. They made a couple of HUGE mistakes the first leg, but were able to check in next to last. They won't last long if they don't get it together fast.

I am really trying to limit my show adding. I refuse to get sucked into any new "summer" shows. This means no Summerland or North Shore. I hear I'm not missing much.

My problem is that I have become sucked into the telenovela on Telemundo - Prisionera. It is a soap opera in Spanish, but closed captioned in English. I'm addicted. It's on Monday through Friday at 6:57 to 8:04 p.m. The main problem is that I can't just have it on in the background and just look up every once in a while. I have to sit down and read the captions. I have over 5 years of high school and college Spanish, but I can't keep up. Some times they are talking so fast, I don't even recognize the sounds they are making as even words. It should be over soon. They seem to run about 6 months and then it's over. But then a new one starts. I have been seeing the commercials for the next one starting - Gitanas. I translated a web site - google is the best - Gypsies. I will have to restrain myself from adding it to my watching list.